The Race Equality Foundation published a report ‘Calling for a national strategy to address rising race and religious hate crime in England and Wales’, written by Dr Leander Neckles, in July 2016.
The Government published the results of the 2014-15 English housing survey in July 2016. It collects information about people’s housing circumstances and the condition and energy efficiency of housing in England.
The LGBT Consortium published their report, ‘A snapshot of the LGBT sector’, in August 2016. The report is based on a survey to LGBT voluntary and community organisations to give information on how income and funding has changed over the past year among these organisations.
On 7 July 2016, the Government published its Response to the House of Lords Select Committee Report on the Equality Act 2010’s impact on disabled people.
The Scottish Government published a report, ‘New Perspectives on the Gender Pay Gap: Trends and Drivers’, in June 2016. The report explains the different measures of the pay gap, breaking it down by age, sector and occupation and considers how it has been changing over time.
Mind launched their campaign Life Support in 2016. The campaign aims to defend life support services which help many people with mental health problems live a full life and stay well.
Nathan Hudson-Sharp and Hilary Metcalf of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) published a report, ‘Inequality among lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender groups in the UK: a review of evidence’, in July 2016.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation published a report ‘Foreign-born people and poverty in the UK’ in July 2016. The report highlights that foreign-born people are at a higher risk of poverty than UK-born people, across a range of characteristics.
The Scottish Council of Jewish Communities published their report ‘What’s changed about being Jewish in Scotland’ in July 2016, highlighting the findings of their 2015 project.
A report into LGBT Londoners’ unmet needs, Still Out There, was published in July 2016. The research was carried out by Anglia Ruskin University and the report was produced by a partnership of LGBT organisations with funding from Trust for London.
